Conference Program

The conference theme, Intercultural Solutions for Challenging Times, has sparked an incredible range of sessions – with applications from the boardroom to the classroom to the virtual world, across oceans and across the street, interacting with others (in person and online) and developing the self.

The program is filled with sessions that will inspire, energize, and motivate participants in their work and lives as interculturalists and citizens of the global society. Sessions will take participants on transnational ships, into the political arena, and along the acculturation journeys and adventures of sojourners. Culture-specific sessions span the globe – north to south and east to west, from Latin America to the Arab world, and to lessons learned in China and India. Intercultural applications in service learning, through personal leadership, using emotional intelligence, and across generations, will provide participants with new ideas in these challenging times.

Come and learn more about intercultural tools involving icebergs and polar bears, activities with art postcards, new and exciting ways to use films and stories, and how to utilize blogs in intercultural programming.

And of course, classic intercultural topics addressed by creative presenters and applied to current conditions are sure to leave participants enthusiastic about intercultural work. Engage in sessions on all aspects of the work: intercultural competence building in multiple contexts, international education and exchanges, training tools and effectiveness, enhancing teamwork, working virtually, assisting refugees and immigrants, global leadership, the cultural aspects of relationship-building, cultural transitions, bridging domestic and global diversity, and exploring power, class, and privilege with intercultural lenses.

Come prepared to participate in stimulating sessions and energizing exchanges as we share and grow in our diverse roles as interculturalists. Check the SIETAR USA website www.sietarusa.org for program schedules and details.

We look forward to seeing you in April!

~Basma Ibrahim DeVries & Holly Emert, Program Co-Chairs

April 1-4, 2009 Concurrent Sessions
(Please note: This schedule is subject to change)

View Thursday, April 2:
>> Sessions 11:00am - 12:30pm
>> Sessions 2:00 - 3:15pm
>> Sessions 3:45 - 5:15pm
>> Mini-Plenary 3:45 - 6:15pm

View Friday, April 3:
>> Sessions 9:00 - 10:30am
>> Sessions 2:00 - 3:15pm
>> Sessions 3:45 - 5:15pm

View Saturday, April 4:
>> Sessions 9:00 - 10:30pm
>> Sessions 2:00 - 3:30pm
>> Sessions 4:00 - 5:15pm

Thursday, April 2, 2009 11:00am-12:30pm
Cultural Competency for Leaders
Lee Mun Wah

In Their Own Voice: Hearing the Intercultural Experience in Newcomers’ Stories
Anne P. Copeland, Marissa Lombardi

Managing Global Talent: What Do Expatriate Spouses Really Need?
Nina Cole

Online Education—Stretching Our Own Digital Comfort Zones
Lynn Fujino, Indy Batth, Hyoshin Kim, Adriana Paz Ramirez

When Boomers, X, & Y Collide: Navigating, Identifying, and Celebrating Generational Culture that Impacts the Present and Future Leaders of the Workforce
Eric Rowles, Aidil Ortiz Collins

The World Values Survey: Evidence of Patterned Global Cultural Change and Implications for Interculturalists
Douglas Stuart

Your Social Identities: Knowing Yourself, Helping Others
Michael H. Hoppe

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Thursday, April 2, 2009 2:00-3:15pm

Change and Intercultural Solutions in Aspiring Times: New Tools
Melinda McClelland

I Will Follow Him - or Her? Trailing Spouses and the Effects of Gender on their Adjustment
Anne Braseby

Intercultural Development in the Short-Term Study-abroad Context: A Comparative Case Study Analysis of Global Seminars in Asia (Thailand and Laos) and Europe (Netherlands)
Kyoung-Ah Nam

Lessons from the Volstead Act: How to Delete a Constitutional Amendment
Karen Dickman

SIETAR-USA Oral History Project (SOHP): Voices Past & Present
Andy Reynolds, Peggy Pusch, Sandy Fowler, SOHP Committee

Volunteer Masala! Measuring Intercultural Sensitivity in International Service Learning
Tamara Thorpe

What Does It Mean to Have a Close Friend? Comparing Cultures
Roger Baumgarte

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Thursday, April 2, 2009 3:45-5:15pm

Advancing Intercultural Learning through Virtual Worlds
Karine Jaffredo, Robin Teigland, Steve Mahaley

The Challenge of Integration: Exploring the Relationship between the Intercultural Field and the Diversity Field
Ame Lambert, Alan Richter, Kelli McLoud-Schingen, Patricia Coleman

The Intercultural Challenges, Successes, and Solutions on an Ocean-Going Transnational University, The Scholar Ship
Riikka Salonen, Adriana Medina, Sarah Woodside

Personal Leadership as a Tool for Intercultural Teambuilding: Exercises & Energies
Rita Wuebbeler, Heather Robinson

Puentes: A Case Study on Cross-Cultural Issues Doing Business in Latin America
Andréa Fuks Ribeiro, Maria Tereza Vargas

The Seattle/Lusaka Connection - A Model for First Time Abroad Intercultural Inter “action”
Shelley Morrison

Voices from Home and the Road: The Personal and Family Side of International Short-term Assignments
Anne Copeland

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Thursday, April 2, 2009 3:45-6:15pm: Mini-Plenary

Let’s Talk Politics: Dialogue as a Tool for Healing from the 2008 Elections
Tatyana Fertelmeyster, Donna Stringer

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Friday, April 3, 2009 9:00 – 10:30am
Best Practices in Consultant-Client Relationships
Neal Goodman

Bridging Culture through Images: Taking Communication Beyond Words
Susanne Taylor

Defining Intercultural Education: A Transatlantic Master’s Program
Sara Hutchinson

Developing Self-Awareness and Global Consciousness through Yoga and Cross-Cultural Competence
Julia Gaspar-Bates

Intercultural Elephants at the Crossroads of our Society: Critical Dialogues for Challenging Times
Sheryl Koning, Candice Hughes

Performing Culture: Local Narratives in Global Spaces
Saumya Pant, Nagesh Rao

The Relationship between Emotional Intelligence and Intercultural Sensitivity
Jarik Conrad

Bridging Culture Through Images: Taking Communication Beyond Words
Susanne Taylor

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Friday, April 3, 2009 2:00 – 3:15pm
Challenges of Conceptualizing Cultural Privilege: Moving Toward Possible Solutions
Elizabeth Root, Anchalee Ngampornchai, Kris Kirschbaum

Exploring Intercultural Competence as a Solution for Challenging Times
Darla Deardorff, Duane Deardorff

Global Citizenship: Challenges and Opportunities for US Higher Education
Chris Cartwright, Peggy Pusch, Jenny Huq

Image makers for the 21st Century: Building Intercultural Skills for Professional Enhancement and Community Enrichment
Maria Thacker

Intercultural Communication and Education in Multicultural Societies
Betse Esber

Languages, Cultures, and Business Relationships (based on Communication Experiences of US-Americans with Russians and Eastern Europeans)
Fiona Citkin

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Friday, April 3, 2009 3:45 – 5:15pm
Assessment of the Elmhurst College Intercultural Studies Program and Study Abroad Using the Intercultural Developmental Inventory
Kathleen Rust

Bollywood: Representing Changing Corporate Values, Creating and Challenging Stereotypes and Dealing with New issues in Indian Society
Vinay Kumar

Intrapersonal Solutions for Challenging Times: Whole Person Intelligence
Shannon Murphy Robinson

Preparing Students for the Global Workplace: A Course Model
Carole Head

The Twelve Elements of Power: Leveraging Strengths and Reducing Liabilities Across Cultures
Susanne Taylor, Sylvia Taylor

Two Arab American Women—a Muslim and a Christian, A Midwesterner and a Southerner—Build an Intercultural Perspective of Arabs, Muslims and Arab Americans
Lobna Ismail, Basma Ibrahim DeVries

What Does Class have to Do With It?
Ame Lambert

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Saturday, April 4, 2009 9:00 – 10:30pm
Challenging Times in Chindia (China/India): How Professionals are Managing Local Cultural Conflicts as well as the Global Economic Slowdown
Vinay Kumar

Cultural Differences in Teambuilding
Paula Swanson

Educational Support for Globalization: Working with Companies to Meet Challenges of Cross-Cultural Virtual Teams
Susan Morris Bray

Icebergs and Polar Bears: Viewing Sustainability through a Cross-Cultural Lens
Cecilia Utne

IDI v3 Guided Development: From Validation to New Web-based Applications
Mitch Hammer

Reality, Resistance, and Change You Can Believe In
Sean Phillips

Who We Are: Search for Identity in the Global Workplace
Tatyana Fertelmeyster

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Saturday, April 4, 2009 2:00 – 3:30pm
Building Trust to Deliver Results in Challenging Times
Alexander Cleberg

Developing Intercultural Competence in Future Leaders: A Case Study of an International
Training Program that Cultivates Exceptional Product Development Managers for Nike, Inc.
Ann Marie Lei, Shelly Dodge

Food for Thought: Diversity, Inclusion, and Intercultural Development at the Food & Nutrition Department of the Oregon Health & Science University Hospital
Riikka Salonen

‘Jerusalem is Proud to Present’ Documentary Film and Discussion
Jeffrey Cookson

Muslim Women as Professional Interculturalists: Influence of Islam on my Professional and Personal Life
Muna Alyusuf, Pari Namazi

Need to Refresh Your Training? Solution: Art Postcards
Sandy Fowler, Monica Mumford

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Saturday, April 4, 2009 4:00 – 5:15pm
Coming to Grips with the USA from Abroad: Designing a Successful Face-to-Face and Internet Curriculum
Jennifer Stouse, George Simons, Joao Paulo Brito

Culturally Teaching: A New Blog Project for Teachers
Cate Brubaker, Anamaria Knight, Pamela Arraras

The International Space Station Simulation: Lessons from NASA on Intercultural Teamwork
Jessica Hirshorn

More than Two Sides to Every Story: A Storytelling Activity to Build Connection & Increase Understanding Across Differing Perspectives
Marlo Goldstein Hode

Moving Beyond the Obvious: Tools for Finding the Human Connection in the Journey of Acculturation
Susan Heffner Rhema

Utilizing a Basic Competency Model to Enhance Intercultural Training Effectiveness
Jennifer Rowe, Louis Lima, Chelsea Beechel

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